Okay, so you know the small scart adapters you can get, in which you plug the composite yellow white red jacks into the back of?

Do they offer any higher quality picture over just plugging the jacks directly into the jack ports on the TV?

thanks

Yellow.

Yellow is always composite video

Red is audio right (r for red, r for right)

White is audio left.

They offer no change over the jacks on the TV.

Thanks for the fast reply. just as i had thought...

RGB Scart to Scart is slightly better. The three colours are sent on separate pins, instead of altogether (composite).

Component is far better, of a similar standard to HDMI

But they have a phono/SCART adapter, which will not have RGB.

RGB SCART is GREATLY better than Composite, the highest possible SD quality you can get.


Component is obviously better for HD, as RGB SCART was never updated to add HD - but it's no better than RGB SCART for SD at all, and in theory is very slightly worse (as it's a sliglyht encoded version of RGB).

RGB SCART is not slightly better than composite it is much better, the difference is far more than the difference between RGB and HDMI (for compatible signals obviously).

Component is not far better quality than RGB SCART, they are pretty much indistinguishable.

Of course if you want to use HD or progressive (for a DVD player for example) then component is the only analogue option because the RGB spec has never been updated beyond interlaced SD.

EDIT: Nigel beat me to it.

technically it would depend on the quality of the components used on the tv and scart adapter. if the scart adapter is really great quality and the scart socket on the tv is better quality than the component socket (ie. better materials and processing), you could potentially get slightly better quality, but the reality is the scart adapter will be made from cheap materials and the tv sockets won't offer much in the way of quality difference between them, and as composite is one of the lowest on the chain of AV cables you aren't really going to notice a difference

so use whatever is the most convenient. the composite socket might be at the front or side of the tv instead of the back where the scart is most likely to be, so you might not want to see the cables sticking out. alternatively you might want the convenience of easy access to unplug them when you don't need them